Good weekend

[Southern Sportsman]

Very little gobbling on the roost opening morning. I started along the edge of a hardwood ridge where several birds were roosted juvy weekend. I gave it an hour, but nothing happening so I eased down the ridge to check out some fields. First one I came to there was a strutter with two hens. Watched them for 30 minutes until the hens eased into the woods and he followed. They were headed into a sandy creek bottom. I had a good angle and a sandy, silent approach so I scurried over and got there first. Just a few soft clucks and he showed up a few minutes later. Broke in my new 20 gauge.

My kids may have been more excited than I was. First turkey pose for my youngest.

 

[TN Larry]

Nice. Love the pic with the kids. Congrats!

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Sunday I went with a good friend to his place. He hunted with his daughter the day before and couldn't be very mobile, but there were 4 gobblers using a field edge all day, so that's where we started. Not a peep. We got up at 7:30 and went searching. Second place we stopped to call we drew a gobble. He was a long ways off through a boggy section of woods. We stood around strategizing for a few minutes then started towards him. Covered 75-80 yards and waited to see if he would gobble on his own. He did. A LOT closer. While we were re-strategizing, he gobbled again and another bird answered him 200-300 yards to our east, and about the same distance north of the first turkey. They were both coming towards a field adjacent to the block of woods we were standing in. A field road runs from that field by the woods block, so we only had one good play. We dropped back 75 yards and set up on the edge of the field road half way down. I let out one series of yelps once we got nestled in, and they both answered. To our delight, it sounded like they had both gotten to the mouth of the road at the same time. A few minutes later I saw two shiny bronze backs working through the grass towards us. They stopped at 30 yards with a briar patch between us and gobbled 2-3 times each, knowing a hen should be right there. A lot could have gone wrong right then, so it was a nerve racking 60 seconds. But there is something about having one - much less two - gobble inside 30 yards that quenches my soul in a way few things can. Finally, they broke and walked 10 more yards into an opening 22 yards from us. My buddy counted it down and we punctuated one of my favorite hunts in a while.

I like people. But 95% of the time I turkey hunt solo by choice. The list of people I genuinely like to turkey hunt with is very, very short. Doubling with one of them on a hunt like this was pretty cool.

 

[Gravey]

Good couple of days. Congrats!!!

Oh and you definitely have your hands full with 3 little ones. Cute kiddos!

 

[Andy S.]

Congrats bud, you definitely cannot beat that weekend. Thanks for sharing.

For some reason, I cannot see your pics on this thread. It just says "image" where the pic is supposed to be.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

For some reason, I cannot see your pics on this thread. It just says "image" where the pic is supposed to be.

I couldn't get them to upload directly, so I linked them through Dropbox. It takes a minute for them to load on mine. They may not show up with limited service.

If others can't see them let me know and I'll do something different.

 

[Wrangler95]

Nice going,congrats!!

 

[Andy S.]

For some reason, I cannot see your pics on this thread. It just says "image" where the pic is supposed to be.

I couldn't get them to upload directly, so I linked them through Dropbox. It takes a minute for them to load on mine. They may not show up with limited service.

If others can't see them let me know and I'll do something different.

I can see them perfect now. Great pics.

 

[JKC]

Congrats!!